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actually, just in in the last couple of minutes from nbc news on this specifically. and i want to tell you what nbc has told us. sources involved are telling nbc news that the pressure cooker bombs in boston were designed and placed to act quote like a homemade clay moor, a powerful directional antipersonnel device, so they don't spray in 360 degrees. they're directional. so these sources are telling nbc news, these and other sources, the triggering mechanism appears to have included a battery pack and a circuit board, elements of a sophisticated triggering mechanism. quote it appeared to be built from scratch, but with a sophisticated triggering mechanism. all bombs are crude devices and it is the way they are triggered that can be sophisticated. they functioned as designed. pressure cookers are exactly what you are thinking. they are metal cooking pots that clamp the top down tight with a tight seal allowing you to cook food faster under pressure with a normal lid like a normal pot. if it sounds like i am not a person who cooks, you're right. to make a bomb out of
actually, just in in the last couple of minutes from nbc news on this specifically. and i want to tell you what nbc has told us. sources involved are telling nbc news that the pressure cooker bombs in boston were designed and placed to act quote like a homemade clay moor, a powerful directional antipersonnel device, so they don't spray in 360 degrees. they're directional. so these sources are telling nbc news, these and other sources, the triggering mechanism appears to have included a battery...
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. >>> tonight an nbc news special report. after an awful day in boston a womani in bombing at the finish line of the boston marathon. there a mass casualties including children. the latest on what happened and where the investigation stands tonight including the search for a subject as the nbc news special report gets under way. >> it's the best day every year in boston. it's a holiday, patriots day. the red sox played at fenway park today and ta won. it started off as a great day and then all eyes turned to the fin ish line at the marathon. at 2:50 this amp here again what the boston globe reported at ground level. a sudden blast in front of a crowd of spectators, volunteers and police officers and second later a second blast and the remnants of the scene show a mass casualty event. tonight the death toll stands at three including an 8-year-old. thousands of people pushed through the streets. we begin with the latest on this night. >> reporter: a sharp bang and then seconds later two blocks away. another explosion. a plume o
. >>> tonight an nbc news special report. after an awful day in boston a womani in bombing at the finish line of the boston marathon. there a mass casualties including children. the latest on what happened and where the investigation stands tonight including the search for a subject as the nbc news special report gets under way. >> it's the best day every year in boston. it's a holiday, patriots day. the red sox played at fenway park today and ta won. it started off as a great...
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time we are joined by nbc news's kerry sanders live on the phone from boston. kerry, can you tell me what you're hearing and seeing on the ground there. >> reporter: sorry. sort of breaking up. can you hear me? this is kerry sanders. >> you're live on the air. go ahead. >> okay. great. as you can hear, there are lots of sirens coming through. these are more emergency vehicles coming in. not police vehicles. i've just come from somehow i wound up on the other side of the police line and i was right up against where the officers have gathered. and there are countless number of officers who have moved -- >> seems we may have lost nbc's kerry sanders live on the scene there in boston. we will continue covering this developing situation. please stay with msnbc for the latest on this developing story. an officer shot and killed at m.i.t. in boston. now back to the "rachel maddow show." >>> what seems to represent at least a somewhat dramatic shift in law enforcement's overall understanding of the case. >> within the last day or so, through that careful process, we in
time we are joined by nbc news's kerry sanders live on the phone from boston. kerry, can you tell me what you're hearing and seeing on the ground there. >> reporter: sorry. sort of breaking up. can you hear me? this is kerry sanders. >> you're live on the air. go ahead. >> okay. great. as you can hear, there are lots of sirens coming through. these are more emergency vehicles coming in. not police vehicles. i've just come from somehow i wound up on the other side of the police...
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nbc news correspondent kerry sanders was on the "today" show from watertown when police told him to take cover. >> the officer started to yell get down, get down. >> reporter: the uncle of the surviving brother pleaded with his nephew. >> i say if you are alive turn yourself in and ask for forgiveness for the victims and the injured. >> reporter: as dusk was falling tonight, another break in the manhunt. for the second night in a row a suburban boston neighborhood was on pins and needles, jarred by something that sure sounded like gunfire. after more than 24 hours of searching, police seem to finally have the remaining suspect in the marathon bombings cornered. police say a resident here in watertown called in to report blood in a backyard leading to a boat where police believe the suspect was hiding. as an ambulance left the area around 9:00 p.m. eastern time tonight. >> suspect is in custody. >> reporter: the crowd cheered. in the end it had come down to ordinary citizens rallying to help the authorities. the younger brother now in a boston hospital undergoing treatment. of course, bri
nbc news correspondent kerry sanders was on the "today" show from watertown when police told him to take cover. >> the officer started to yell get down, get down. >> reporter: the uncle of the surviving brother pleaded with his nephew. >> i say if you are alive turn yourself in and ask for forgiveness for the victims and the injured. >> reporter: as dusk was falling tonight, another break in the manhunt. for the second night in a row a suburban boston...
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nbc news reporting according to a senior government official, quote, they got instructions on how to make bombs from the internet. today a little more detail arose. a new hampshire company called phantom fireworks said it had sold fireworks to the older suspect, the older of the two brothers. phantom fireworks discovered the sale after going through their records following the boston bombings. the company says it was back in february at its store in seabrook, new hampshire when they sold tamerlan tsarnaev a pair of lock and load reloadable mortar kits for $199 apiece. the company executive telling the report, barely legal right above where it says locked and load. the company executive told reporters today the amount of combustible or explosive material that a person might be able to recover from this particular fireworks kit would not have been enough to make the bombs made in boston last week. that is the word from that company official. in terms of fireworks being a source of explosive material for improvised explosive devices we are familiar with that concept in part because of t
nbc news reporting according to a senior government official, quote, they got instructions on how to make bombs from the internet. today a little more detail arose. a new hampshire company called phantom fireworks said it had sold fireworks to the older suspect, the older of the two brothers. phantom fireworks discovered the sale after going through their records following the boston bombings. the company says it was back in february at its store in seabrook, new hampshire when they sold...